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Craigie: Skaldic Metre.
of break before the last foot, so that a compound in this
position was felt to be awkwardly placed.
§ 18. The fact elicited in the foregoing section, that
such compounds as hugrekki, skyranni were under certain
circumstances stressed on the second element raises the question
of their value in other positions. A little investigation shows
that the formula ^ ± ^ holds for one other place in the line,
viz. when the first element immediately follows the first
stress, as in jarl go&vorfru ty’arli. Here again the distinction
between first and second lines is so important that it will
be best to exhibit characteristic specimens side by side.
First lines
pa’s Ajnfusir disar
fyr Bvi-prijorctum sverfta
par’s bo&iarctir borctusk
ok gimslongvir ganga
pa’s hr&mdna hdnum
pd’s hjormocti hriSar
Second lines
sundr graJclcetfi pundar
blict lofskreyti at ri&a
bands jodraugar landa
gifrs hl&mdna drifu
Iimr A&gleggjar hilmis
stafns ftztbalkar Hrafna
Taking the second lines first, we find that the normal type
occurs 29 times in Skjaldekvad, and the compound has
invariably a syllable with short or final vowel as its first
element, e. g. brirnrota, geftbceti, hdrndna, berdraugar,
flat-vallar, valkastar) strddau&a, etc. A remarkable fact is that the
negative prefix d- is among these short syllables, e. g.
seiS ofagran vigra
bbl olitit drygir
mlnn okunnar pinum.
To interpret these lines as belonging to Prof. Sievers’ D-type,
jl | s a. x | ± X plainly does not account for the facts, because
in that case there would have been no necessity for the skald
to select a compound of this form. The only value which
can reasonably be assigned to them is -^ ^ | -^ ^ | -^ v^, so that
the first element of the compound is weaker than if it were
an independent word, for llmr dag leggjar would be J- ± J- ^
and impossible except in sJydlfhend.
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